UK Jewish Film Festival 2009 presents UK Premiere: Oh My God

Dir.Peter Roger | USA | 2009 | 93 mins | English

We are experiencing days of religious turmoil,of fundamentalism and the breakdown of spirituality through technology and reason. After the collapse of the piety that was rooted in myth, cult, occult, and ancient religions, Peter Rogers asks,“What is God?”

Over three years the director travelled across 23 countries asking this question to children, religious leaders, celebrities, fanatics, and to the common man. The results of this journey are sometimes predictable, sometimes surprising. We are conditioned as human beings – influenced by our parents, schools, and the religious beliefs of our home countries. If we have a religion, perhaps we should spend longer studying our chosen belief instead of blindly following other human beings who claim to have the authority of God. It seems evident that Man has taken the power and concept of God and politicized it for agendas that are the antipathies to the dignity and tolerance that the prophets of all the major religions preached in their day. 

The screening will be followed by a discussion with representatives of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

In association with Three Faiths Forum, Radical Middle Way and MUJU